Hey Portland, if you see the 1986 Toyota MR2 with silly red/yellow wheels and the license plate VCP 230 it's mine and it's stolen, please call it in! It is noticeable and I would be thrilled to get it back.

This is beautiful to me

Hey folks! BIJAN (www.beyondbondboston.org/) is a Mass-based org that does a LOT of good in immigration support. In 2026 alone, they've paid over $1.5 million(!!) in bonds to free people from detention. But now their funds are running critically low, and they need donations urgently. #uspolitics

Today is a wonderful day to stock up on FIYAH's backlog of issues. It's a fantastic magazine, and financial support now may help them get back on their feet in the future. fiyahlitmag.com

I'll be on a panel about the Otherwise Awards at WisCon this weekend! 10:30 AM on Saturday, come talk about gender in spec-fic with us

As promised, super interesting!

honestly the most interesting thing ive read in weeks

Announcement Post Up on GNS: Submissions Re-Opening June 15th! giganotosaurus.org/2026/05/19/s...

news flash creative endeavors with friends just for your own fun are great actually

Check this out. Ruthlessly Handmade is running a huge quilt raffle to benefit the Trevor Project. These quilts are gorgeous and the tickets are just $5.50. ruthlesslyhandmade.com/collections/...

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have finally seen Project Hail Mary, and yes okay several things do not work like that (manually hoisting my linguistics-related disbelief to suspend it) but I DID in fact have a wonderful time

Happy International Workers Day from Boston bluesky ✊️ #MayDay

writers: APEX and THREE-LOBED BURNING EYE are back open for submissions today!

We're singing SO much fun music! About things like farming! And massive labor strikes and building barricades!

I want to goooooo but I'm across the country so I'm gonna have to keep boosting it for you local folks instead (full disclosure one of the creators is a friend and that's my little Weird Sharks zine there but also, you should trust me that my friend has impeccable taste and makes incredible art!!!)

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

Huge congrats to all the Hugos finalists!

when only one of us is on the couch m dash just as often chills from a distance but increasingly if both of us are on there together he immediately wants to be included. the girls the gays and m dash if it's not too much trouble

Suuuper long shot but I don’t suppose any of the cambridge bike people who are seeing this might happen to have found a brand new pair of boots from REI that were left in the front basket of a blue bike that my other half docked in central square yesterday? 😅🙏

I would be a regular at all my local coffeeshops and an annually renewing member of every museum I've ever enjoyed, whenever possible at whatever level let me pop in for free whenever I felt like it

Cosigning all of this, including the part where I've got a story in here too! If queer sword & sorcery sounds like fun to you, maybe consider checking it out!

Gosh I love portfolio day. If you are an artist who might wanna work with us, I'd love it if you filled out the form over here: www.neonhemlock.com/info

the distance between "it's a beautiful sunny spring day!!" and "help I'm an overheating sauna" is so tiny and paved with dumb choices about taking a little walk

Kaleidotrope opens to fiction and poetry submissions four weeks from today, from April 19 to 25. It's one of only three weeks this year that Kaleidotrope will be open to fiction and poetry submissions. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

Shannon is a friend and this project is so so cool! ZINE SHOP!!

#uspolitics this seems like something that would be of interest to some of the US folks I know

Serpent Mound! Also I'm pretty sure we got to ride on a paddlewheeler at one point.

I also win because I love these characters SO MUCH and so every increasingly amazing sketch from @pomidaea.bsky.social filled me with utter delight

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees? Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey. The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

finally watched the new Superman movie today, about an eon behind everybody else, and NOBODY TOLD ME CINCINNATI'S UNION TERMINAL WAS A FILMING LOCATION CINCINNATI MENTIONED*!!!!!!! *very much not mentioned, it was probably? part of Metropolis? I think?? but I KNOW THAT EXTERIOR I KNOW THAT LOBBY

After the snow stops, it’s time to shovel! City staff and each of our neighborhood liaisons will be holding Love Your Block volunteer shoveling meet-ups Tuesday to clean out some problem areas. Bring a shovel and a friend! There's more info at boston.gov/shovel. ❄️

keep seeing people talking about Hugo and Nebula nominations which means it is my professional duty to remind you that nominations for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize open on SUNDAY

#uspolitics hell yeah, this is like the bare minimum warranted here (as the thread expounds upon)

One of my favorite stupid household memes is when my wife cries, "GONDOR CALLS FOR AID!" and the aid that Gondor requires of Rohan is opening a jar of salsa or whatever

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

EXTREMELY ENTHUSIASTICALLY COSIGNING this grassroots Hugo campaign for Elisa Chavez's poetry in general and this one in particular

I'm so happy

Anyone I know going to Boskone? I'll be there on Saturday, and I'll also have some pottery in the art show. (Baby's first con art show!) Let me know if you want to meet up, or we can just keep an eye out for each other in the halls!

If you have a ring camera, it is possible to return it and get a refund, and looking into doing so might be well worth your time. bsky.app/profile/tris...

My good friend @wakeupnew.bsky.social has a rabbit who needs an emergency blood transfusion. If you might be able to provide a healthy rabbit blood donor, please DM her (or me if needed!) I can vouch for the urgent need and the eternal gratitude and cute bunny pictures you would get in return

ughhh of course (this isn't really #uspolitics it's more global labor burden of tech but tagging for friends just in case)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Damn. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

#uspolitics <3

I found this a very heartening read (for "given that this horrific and enraging situation is even happening" values of heartening, but it is, so analysis of useful tactics is indeed heartening) #uspolitics

Submissions continue to be open for the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's fiction series. I'm gallivanting around NYC but the in-box isn't on vacation! alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...

We tend to think of things happening in the present as the endpoint of stuff that's been percolating for decades, but it's also the beginning of new things: These are formative events that nobody living through them will forget, and we have no idea what seeds are being sown for the future.

I'm really proud of this little story of a big robot and all the lives around it in and above the soil, and I hope you enjoy it!

Absolutely thrilled to announce that I have a story -- a graphic adaptaiton, in fact! -- live today in the #soilpunk magazine Tractor Beam! The absolutely wonderful art was done (really impressively fast!) by Xiang Yata. You can read "The Valley in Thaw" and all the rest at www.tractorbeam.earth